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Cigarettes & Wine (Social Fictions Series) First Edition

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Imagine the terror and exhilaration of a first sexual experience in a church where you could be caught at any moment. In Cigarettes & Wine, this is where we meet an unnamed teenage narrator in a small southern town trying to make sense of their own bisexuality, gender variance, and emerging adulthood. When our narrator leaves the church, we watch their teen years unfold alongside one first love wrestling with his own sexuality and his desire for a relationship with God, and another first love seeking to find herself as she moves away from town. Through the narrator’s eyes, we also encounter a newly arrived neighbor who appears to be an all American boy, but has secrets and pain hidden behind his charming smile and athletic ability, and their oldest friend who is on the verge of romantic, artistic, and sexual transformations of her own. Along the way, these friends confront questions about gender and sexuality, violence and substance abuse, and the intricacies of love and selfhood in the shadow of churches, families, and a small southern town in the 1990’s. Alongside academic and media portrayals that generally only acknowledge binary sexual and gender options, Cigarettes & Wine offers an illustration of non-binary sexual and gender experience, and provides a first person view of the ways the people, places, and narratives we encounter shape who we become. While fictional, Cigarettes & Wineis loosely grounded in hundreds of formal and informal interviews with LGBTQ people in the south as well as years of research into intersections of sexualities, gender, religion, and health. Cigarettes & Wine can be read purely for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in a variety of courses in sexualities, gender, relationships, families, religion, the life course, narratives, the American south, identities, culture, intersectionality, and arts-based research.

“I suspect that many people who have even unrecognized ambivalences about sexual and gender binaries might find in it an illuminating reflection of their own paths. This fast-paced, introspective romp through high school and beyond keeps the pages turning with love, sex, and an understanding grandma.” Dawne Moon, Ph.D., Marquette University, and author of God, Sex and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies “Cigarettes and Wine is entertaining, thrilling, heartbreaking, while also a bit educational about the often invisible members of the LGBTQ community – bi and pan sexual, trans and gender non-conforming, and polyamorous folks. You won’t want to put it down!” Eric Anthony Grollman, Ph.D., University of Richmond and editor of Conditionally Accepted at Inside Higher Ed J. E. Sumerau is an assistant professor and director of applied sociology at the University of Tampa. Zir writing and research focuses on the intersections of sexualities, gender, religion, and health in the interpersonal and historical experiences of sexual, gender, and religious minorities.
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  3. Edition
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  4. Publisher
    Sense Publishers
  5. Publication date
    January 17, 2017
  6. Part of series
    Social Fictions Series
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    6.14 x 0.57 x 9.21 inches
  9. Print length
    250 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sense Publishers; First Edition (January 17, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9463009272
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9463009270
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.57 x 9.21 inches
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J.E. Sumerau is a novelist and scholar who resides in Florida, and spends their time doing research, teaching, and writing novels about life in the south. For more information, please visit www.jsumerau.com or follow them on twitter @jsumerau and @writewherehurts, on Facebook @jesumerau, or on instagram @jesumerau. You can also check out their works on goodreads.

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  • Alyssa Garcia
    5.0 out of 5 stars Honest, Raw, Personal
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019
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    This novel offers a perspective I don't see often in literature and I am so glad that this book exists. This author frequently gives a voice to those in the LGBTQ+ community, and this novel is an excellent example of that. It is difficult to read this novel without seeing yourself in one of the characters or to put it down without having at least one of your preconceived notions about humanity being challenged. Cigarettes and Wine will make you think and move you to think critically about love.
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  • NM
    5.0 out of 5 stars A queer narrative to remember!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2017
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    Cigarettes & Wine invites the reader to dig deeper into the lives of a charismatic group of close friends. You will become emotionally invested in each character, as they overcome their own unique set of challenges as LGBTQ adolescents. While remaining an insightful resource in gender fluidity, sexualities, and religion, this narrative has also been an indulgence of pleasure. Cigarettes & Wine is charming, witty, and touching, while capturing the intersectional experiences of sexual and gender minorities. As a prospective graduate student, it gives me great satisfaction to read a fiction novel with such accuracy in LGBTQ scholarship. Cigarettes & Wine is a queer narrative to remember!
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  • Kenneth
    5.0 out of 5 stars This was a wonderfully written book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2017
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    This was a wonderfully written book. Being able to follow the characters as they figure out who they are and find terms that describe how the feel was great and relatable. The story really shows how various people can affect one's life. The reader can get real glimspe of what it's like to be LGBT growing up in a place that doesn't accept you and trying to find your way in the world. This stories hits upon many issues people face growing up and how these issues change who we become over the years. A truly captivating story.
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  • Mark
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book is just amazing. It sucks you in and you can't put ...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2017
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    This book is just amazing. It sucks you in and you can't put it down. The characters and the emotions are so real and the book makes you enter their lives and feel their emotions. Not a typical love story with a predictable ending, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat and surprise you. Brought me back to my childhood and made me feel so many emotions. Highly recommend to anyone.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Who hasn't wanted to be in love? Regardless of who you are
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2017
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    "Cigarettes and Wine" gives a voice to gender and sexual minorities, as well as anyone who experiences feelings. Who hasn't felt scared? Who hasn't wanted to be in love? Regardless of who you are, you will connect to this book. Read "Cigarettes and Wine." It reminds you of what love is and how great your best friends are. It'll probably make you wish you had these friends. Read it and feel less alone.
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  • wifie29
    5.0 out of 5 stars A solid story
    Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2017
    This is the fourth or fifth book I’ve read in less than a year set in the 1990s, and I still have two more ahead. A lot of late Gen X-ers are writing about our own coming of age years, perhaps feeling the pull of our age and the need to tell our stories, to connect our parents’ generation with our children’s. These were the books I needed as an introverted, confused adolescent struggling to see myself in mainstream fiction. The characters are the people I longed to know but was afraid to find. Although this book, and others like it, are written for teens and new adults, they are also written for us. They are for the youths we were, growing up just after the awakening of Gay Liberation but being raised under the looming presence of the Religious Right.

    In Cigarettes and Wine, the main character is never named. The novel has a memoir-like feel to it, and we’re treated not only to the narrative of their young adult years but also their philosophical musings about the experiences. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, it is an absorbing read and an eye-opening look at small-town Southern life during that era.

    This is not a romance, but there are many kinds of love contained in the story. The narrator has more than one romantic love, but they also have strong bonds with many friends. On page, many people come in and out of their life. Some remain to become lifelong friends; others drift away. There is a brief part where the narrator ponders how incorrect we can sometimes be about the importance of someone we meet. I think this is almost the overall tone of the whole story, discovering who the important people are.

    There were many things that I found myself nodding along to, experiences the narrator details which match my own. But emotionally, I actually related most to their years-long boyfriend, Jordan. Although first-person narration leans toward the unreliable, I found the main character to be refreshingly honest about their feelings toward the other characters. Whether these were close friends, lovers, or people they disliked, all were drawn as fully human, whole people rather than the narrator’s caricatures of them.

    One thing which surprised me was not to see any mention of HIV/AIDS at all. I’m not sure if this is a function of the narrator’s relatively sheltered upbringing, and it isn’t something to be criticized. It’s only notable because there are other key events of the 1990s which do come up, including Matthew Shepard’s death. In all other ways, so much of that era will resonate for anyone who lived it, and it will be interesting to see how young adults coming of age now perceive the climate of twenty years ago.

    In true literary fashion, there is a lot of foreshadowing for the last quarter of the book. I had a feeling I knew where the story was going from fairly early on, but that did not detract from my enjoyment. Instead, it helped me both to see the rich history of my near-age-peers and to view the story as metaphor. This is a classic example of the shattering of innocence and the often painful slide into adulthood, especially for those of us who were not fully accepted or integrated within our churches, schools, or communities.

    While I am now at a stage where I prefer happy or hopeful endings to ambiguous or tragic ones, I still found so much to enjoy and appreciate here. This is a highly skillful story which I hope is widely read. Ideally, adults who lived through this era would have the chance to read and talk about it with today’s young people. Even now, many lgbtq+ youth are almost forced to raise themselves with far less guidance than straight kids. A book like this, and the stories contained in it, could bridge the age gap and help us to understand one another.

    For a solid story, a book full of wise words, and characters who stick with you beyond the end, this gets 5 stars.
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